JimTripper

A lot of the guys who expatriate to cheaper countries just end up utilizing the services of prostitutes. Typically they don't have much in common with the local population. If they are able to overcome those cultural and communication barriers, it's a lot harder to do then it would be with someone from their home country. If a guy has that sort of game and skill to overcome those barriers with a foreign non-prostitute partner they would already have someone in their home country, or they would be relocating with their partner.

Moving to Switzerland.

Maybe they did not want to call it Church's here because of Buddhism. Church's sounds Christian.

I'm from the USA and I have never heard of it.

It's not just the roads, it's any construction. They can't get it correct and lack of education.

Here is a good article. It's been happening for years. This was six years ago. It's worse now. https://mythailand.blog/2018/03/05/chiang-mai-paradise-lost/

It depends on what you want. I almost moved into the digital nomad building, it felt very comforting to be in a foreigner oriented space with people that were doing nomad stuff. It felt like I was around people who were going to succeed, move on and be successful, rather then stuck older expats who were just existing here with nothing going on with them or broke backpackers looking for wifi. There's something really exciting about being around people who are accomplishing something and not just succumbing to a foreign environment. I don't really need it to be "Thailand" anymore for me though. I have already experienced that. I'm at the stage where I want it to feel more like home (SF Bay Area) and not Thailand. It definately feels like CM is less Thai then it was 10-20 years ago. One particular thing I found disgusting is some Thai guy scaring the pigeon's around Tha Phae gate with a loud plastic barrel and yelling loudly. He does it so they fly up and the Chinese can take pictures with the pigeon's flying around them. If that's not sick tourism, I don't know what is.

I have not noticed more actual expats in Chiang Mai, but I have noticed foreigner oriented spaces like the new co-working spaces/cafe's with their 100 baht latte's. Some of the condo complexes even have co-working areas a la San Francisco type vibey spaces for digital nomads with cold plunge pools, etc. That's not Thai at all to my mind, it's more foreigners interacting with each other and creating those types of living spaces.

If you're using money as a bargaining chip that's not a secure relationship. You can run out of money. You can also have loads, but never enough. The world is full of grey areas, however. Many people need to compromise and use the cards they have been dealt. Time waits for no man... The chance to propagate your genes can be based on luck or skill and if you get that lucky break, why not take advantage of it?

When I get continual questions about "what do you do? etc, I just don't answer. Telling anyone about your finances is a mistake unless you are alreadt in a committed relationship (years). You can't play a long game if you don't know what winning means.

Time is money.

If things worked like clockwork you would be in Switzerland.

Do you rush when you have sex? Or do your partners rush you?

Also, quickly snatching at things because they have been trained in the past to see it being taken away. Or, eating very quickly because the food might not be there tomorrow. Grabbing and hoarding groceries because someone else may get them. Aggressive Walmart shoppers with huge carts full or groceries when the food stamps arrive once a month (common in the USA to buy everything the first few days and go on a binge, then run out before the end of the month). People with more have not had that experience of lack so they don't see it disappearing.

If they have dementia they probably don't care if they speak English. It would be more about acting friendly and quality of care.

I am interested in why less affluent people tend to rush more. Wealthy people tend to take their time and are very patient. Have you found this to be the case in your dealings? Is it because poor people have less, so by deduction think rushing will bring a desired result more quickly? Or, because they are anxious to get results right away because nothing is saved up for emergencies? Counter-intuitively I have found that rushing actually gets things done less well and quickly then having patience. One of the reasons for this may be that things are overlooked and mistakes made due to lack of thought and due consideration before acting. Thoughts?

Find a carrier shop in the mall and sign up for a real plan. It saves a lot of headaches.

You may want to actually try living in one. It builds character.

The narrator said "blokes" 🤣 They go where there are eligible brides, but every country has eligible brides.

I wonder if the Thai hospital bothers with an examination. So like many other things here, you get the paper but it does not mean much.

Food courts are about people being herded in due to other needed shops in the vicinity (or because they are skint and can't afford not to), not somewhere where people go to be happy. Most people want the wait staff. Ditto with bars, they want attention basically. Attention is energy. Drawing energy to yourself either by creating noise, looking different (clothing that stands out, jewelry, fancy cars/watches), eating out and being seen and noticed. That's what door greeters do. They are giving people attention and energy. Most people will go to where they are noticed.

Learn to enjoy suffering.

A lot of people go to restaurants, bars and especially cafe's to interact with other people. If that was not the case almost everybody would stay home. Even a negative interaction with wait staff is an interaction. To your social bonding mind that problem is the same as good service. It's all about having "some sort of interaction". You see everyone on the phone at many places these days, but they are doing that in public around other people. That's one thing McD's etc got wrong about self-checkout.

Terrible, even dangerous omen. That basically means the bad karma will work against the family, rather then being released. Even worse, the father's sins will work against the children.

Chiang Mai is pretty good during the rainy season. It much cooler here and therefore easy to go out and do stuff. None of the sweating problem that I hate or needing a/c. Decent weather makes a huge difference.